Peter Braunstein

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Peter Braunstein (born July 7, 1957 in Krefeld ) is a Brigadier General of the Army of the German Armed Forces .

Military career

Training and first uses

Braunstein joined the Bundeswehr in July 1977 with Supply Battalion 2 in Kassel . Up until 1978 he was trained as an officer in the supply force . He then completed a degree in economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , graduating in 1982 with a degree in business administration.

From April 1982 Lieutenant Braunstein served as a company officer in the replenishment training company 14/1 in Lüneburg . In July 1984 he was transferred to Unna and took over the post of a platoon leader for material handling equipment with the 7th supply battalion and served at this post until March 1986. In April 1986, Braunstein took over the post of a handling squadron in Wentorf near Hamburg in the supply company 160. In October In 1987 he finally became company commander in Supply Battalion 3 in Stade and was promoted to captain in this role.

Service as a staff officer

From April 1989 to September 1991 he completed the National General and Admiralty Staff Course (LGAN) at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and was then promoted to major . Subsequently he was transferred to the staff of the 3rd Panzer Division in Buxtehude , where he served as department head G4 (logistics) under the command of Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof until June 1993 .

From July to September 1993 Braunstein served as a liaison officer of the German delegation at the headquarters of the Allied Forces Central Europe in Brunssum , the Netherlands, under the command of Henning von Ondarza . Braunstein stayed in Brunssum and served under the new commander , Helge Hansen , from September 1993 to September 1995 as operations and planning officer ( G3 ), responsible for long-term planning.

In October 1995, Lieutenant Colonel Braunstein took command of the 131 Supply Battalion in Zeithain and led this until 1998.

In 1998 Braunstein was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn and later also served at the second office in Berlin's Bendlerblock . From January 1998 to September 2001 he was employed within the Ministry in Staff Department V (Bundeswehr Deployment) in the Command Staff of the Armed Forces (FüS V 4) as a consultant for “Territorial Tasks / Civil-Military Cooperation”. From October 2001 to September 2005, Braunstein was employed at the FüS as a consultant / deputy head of the “Operations Management Bundeswehr” (FüS V 3) and served here under Hans-Jochen Witthauer, among others . In October 2010, Braunstein took over the post of office manager of the head of staff at the FüS, Wolfram Kühn, for three months . In February 2006 Braunstein finally succeeded Lutz Niemann as adjutant of the then Federal Minister of Defense, Franz Josef Jung ( CDU ). Braunstein also served as Jung's successor, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , as adjutant from October 2009 .

Service as a general

On December 16, 2009, Braunstein was appointed Brigadier General from Christian Westphal as the commander of the Berlin site command . At the same time, he continued to be in charge of the affairs of the minister as adjutant for a while. After the Berlin site command was dissolved, from January 2013 Braunstein also accompanied the subsequent post as general for site tasks in Berlin in the territorial tasks command of the Bundeswehr . During this time he was commanded from August 2014 to January 2015 for a NATO assignment to Pristina , Kosovo , where he was director of the NATO Liaison and Advisory Team (NLAT).

On February 18, 2015, Braunstein handed over his post as General for Location Tasks Berlin to Michael Matz to take over command of the Center for Verification Tasks of the Bundeswehr in Geilenkirchen .

Private

Braunstein is married.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Schönberger: Keeping in touch and advising - Welcome to NLAT. Bundeswehr.de, December 8, 2014, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  2. Susanne Lopez: Handover of General Location Tasks Berlin: "I am de-registering". kommando.streitkraeftebasis.de, February 18, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2015 .